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science opportunity thinking
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar. Richard P. Feynman
science measurement momentum
Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.
science play theoretical-physics
It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.
science progress trying
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
science thinking doubt
Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.
science tourists philosopher
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
science reflection desire
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe [Nature] does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
science errors certain
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
science camels world
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund. Richard Dawkins
astrology nuclear form
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. Louis Pasteur
astrology body celestial-bodies
The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world. Thomas Aquinas
astrology providence left-alone
I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence. Mahatma Gandhi
astrology facts coincidence
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.... Carl Jung
astrology world this-world
This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options. Aristotle
astrology faithful matter
Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start. Shana Alexander
astrology office people
Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling. Martin Luther
astrology return born
I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return Mark Twain
astrology physicians
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician. Hippocrates
heaven strange eternity
Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity. Anton LaVey
heaven choices earth
Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth. Rob Bell
heaven promise world
To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world. Richard Rohr
heaven sugar cups
I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup. Samuel Rutherford
heaven miles
Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.
heaven earth hell
The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written. Wallace Stevens
heaven doubt earth
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. William Cowper
heaven earth territory
Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian. Roseanne Barr
heaven rewards results
Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts. Saint Augustine